Another Beautiful Day

I was a couple of days late for my blood test so we ran down to Kaiser to get that done and pick up an item I needed from the pharmacy.  The Mitsubishi was due for an oil change so we stopped at Jiffy Lube in Kelso to get it done.  This is the view out the windshield as they were doing it.  Afterwards we went to the Burger King next to Jiffy Lube and had lunch.

It was such a nice day out that I flew the helicopter with a new heat sink on the speed control to see if it kept it any cooler.  I flew until the helicopter landed its self because of low battery voltage which resulted in a thirteen minute flight.  I measured the temperature with an infrared pyrometer and it was cooler by about ten degrees. 

Before the second flight I cut a hole in the canopy right above the speed control so it would get cooling air from the main rotor.  After that flight it was another ten degrees cooler and just barely warm to the touch.  Before all these changes I couldn't hold my hand on the speed control after a flight when the temperature was in the forties and today it was fifty seven.

Vera got a nice picture of the FW-450 as I was hovering it next to the driveway.